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Actually, the entire sub was ridiculously wrong and inconsistent!  |
I always say it looks to me like they got some stock prop sub parts and put them into somebody's living room.
But the shots aboard the real DE are partly what made me choose destroyers when I joined the navey. Truly a great sea movie! Also one of those rare cases where the movie is actually better than the book (or so the reviews I've read say).
[edit] I was just reading the description at Wiki, and they have some interesting details about the crew of USS
Whitehurst, which played the fictional USS
Haynes in the movie.
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The destroyer escort USS Haynes was portrayed by USS Whitehurst (DE-634), filmed in the Pacific Ocean near Oahu, Hawaii. Many of the Whitehurst's crewmen acted in the film: The phone talkers, the gun and depth charge crews, the sailor fishing, and all of the men seen abandoning ship, were Whitehurst sailors. The ship's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Walter Smith, played the engineering officer. He is the man seen reading comics (Little Orphan Annie) during the lull before the action.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Below
I love it when they do stuff like that.